For instance, it allows loved ones to try to be together during the personâs last hours. Signs and symptoms that suggest that a person with cancer may be entering the final weeks of life: 1  Progressive weakness and exhaustion. 2  A need to sleep much of the time, often spending most of the day in bed or resting. 3  Weight loss and muscle thinning or loss.
An individual is a person or a specific object. Individuality (or selfhood) is the state or quality of being an individual; particularly of being a person separate from other persons and possessing his or her own needs or goals. The exact definition of an individual is important in the fields of biology, law, and philosophy.
1 individual (adj.) 2  early 15c., one and indivisible, inseparable (with reference to the Trinity), from Medieval Latin individualis, from Latin individuus indivisible, from in- not, opposite of (see in- (1)) + dividuus divisible, from dividere divide (see divide (v.)).